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Kōjirō Hongō
was a Japanese actor. Hongo won an Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1959. His notable international performances were in the Daiei Studios Gamera films. Selected filmography Film * ''Geo Tree'' (1959) * '' The Demon of Mount Oe'' (1960) * '' Satan's Sword'' (1960) * '' Satan's Sword II'' (1960) * ''Buddha'' (1960) * '' Satan's Sword 3'' (1961) * ''The Whale God'' (1962) * '' The Great Wall'' (1962) * '' Zero Fighters'' (1965) * '' Gamera vs. Barugon'' (1966) * '' Return of Daimajin'' (1966) * '' Gamera vs. Gyaos'' (1967) * '' The Woman Gambler'' (1967) * '' Gamera vs. Viras'' (1968) * '' Peony Lantern'' (1968) * '' Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts'' (1969) * '' Hiken yaburi'' (1969) * '' Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword'' (1969) * '' The Falcon Fighters'' (1969) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1969) * '' Gateway to Glory'' (1970) * '' Karate for Life'' (1977) * '' Gamera: Guardian of the Universe'' (1995) * '' Tokyo Mafia'' (1995) * '' Tokyo Mafia: Wrath of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okayama
is the prefectural capital, capital Cities of Japan, city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The Okayama metropolitan area, centered around the city, has the largest urban employment zone in the Chugoku region of western Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1889. , the city has an estimated population of 700,940 and a population density of 890 people per km2. The total area is . The city is the site of Kōraku-en, known as one of the top three traditional gardens in Japan, and Okayama Castle, which is ranked among the best 100 Japanese castles. The city is famous as the setting of the Japanese fable ''Momotarō''. Okayama joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016. History Sengoku period to Bakumatsu period Before the Muromachi period, Okayama was one corner of a farm region and included a small castle built by the Kanemitsu. In the Sengoku period, Ukita Naoie attacked Okayama and attacked the castle for the transportation resources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiken Yaburi
is a 1969 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro. It is based on Kosuke Gomi's novel . The film depicts the early years of Horibe Yasubei and Tange Tenzen's relationship. Cast *Hiroki Matsukata as Tange Tenzen *Kojiro Hongo as Nakayama Yasubei * Yumi Iwai as Nagao Chiharu * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Nagao Ryunosuke * Yoshihiko Aoyama as Asano Takumi no Kami * Shousaku Sugiyama as Kira Yoshinaka * Yoshi Katō as Horibe Yasubei * Tatsuo Matsumura as Chisaka Takafusa was a high-ranking samurai in Japan during the Edo period. He was a ''karō'' in the Yonezawa Domain under the Uesugi clan. He is also known as . Although he died prior to the events of the Forty-seven rōnin, he appears in fictional accounts, i ... Other adaptations * '' Samurai Vendetta'' References Jidaigeki films 1960s samurai films 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeda Shingen (TV Series)
is a 1988 Japanese historical television series. It is the 26th NHK Taiga drama. It is based on the novels by Jirō Nitta of the same title. It had the average viewing rating of 39.7%, with its peak reaching 47.8%. It had the second highest average viewership rating in its history with only a 0.5% difference to the previous year's Taiga drama One-Eyed Dragon Masamune. Plot The series focuses on the life of Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period. The narrator is Takeda Shingen's mother, Ōi-no-kata, who tells the story to the audience. Even when she dies mid-way through the main story, it is her spirit who continues to narrate the events and watch over her son until the very end. It covers from when Shingen exiled his father to his funeral three years after his death. Production *Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi Cast Takeda clan *Kiichi Nakai as Takeda Shingen **Claude Maki as young Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori *Mikijirō Hira as Takeda Nobutora, Shingen's father * Ay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokusō Saizensen
was a long running popular television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1977 to 1987. Aired on TV Asahi. It stars Hideaki Nitani. Cast * Hideaki Nitani as Kyōsuke Kamishiro (Boss of the Special Investigation Division) * Hiroshi Fujioka as Tetsuo Sakurai * Toshiyuki Nishida as Yōzō Takasugi * Kojiro Hongo as Tsuyoshi Tachibana * Hideji Ōtaki as Ippei Funamura * Naoya Makoto as Ryuji Yoshino (1977–86) * Atsushi Watanabe as Denkichi Tokida * Kenichi Sakurai as Jirō Taki * Kiyotaka Mitsuki as Seishirō Inukai * Shigeru Araki as Akira Tsugami * Yusuke Natsu as Shunichi Kanō * Yuji Abe as Toshio Sugi * Masumi Sekiya as Mikiko Takasugi * Katsuhiko Yokomitsu is a Japanese actor and politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), who serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet (national legislature). Overviews A native of Usa, Ōita and graduate of the Universi ... as Kanichi Kurebayashi References External links To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family 2 (film)
''Family 2'' is a 2001 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike, released on home video as the sequel to his earlier film ''Family''. Plot After attacking Mutsumi headquarters with a tank, Takashi and his rescued wife Mariko hide out with Mr. Shao in Chinatown while Hideshi continues to seek out Takeshi. Hideshi finds Takeshi working in an alligator costume selling balloons. Rie wanted him to get a legitimate job and they are staying at a church down the road from where she grew up in a geisha house run by her father. Rie spends her time caring for a friend from high school who has been hospitalized since being injured in an automobile accident while Rie was driving. Rie's mother died and she does not get along with her step-mother Chiharu Ishibashi, who runs the geisha house alone now that Rie's father has also died. Chiharu feels that Rie blames her for her father's death so she angrily sells information about her daughter-in-law's location to Kenmochi's men for 20 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (2001 Film)
''Family'' is a 2001 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike. This film together with its sequel '' Family 2'' comprise the complete ''Family'' saga. Plot Iwaida of the Nishiwaki Group is sent by his boss to collect a debt. He does not find the debtor so he rapes the debtor's wife Haruko while her husband and young son Takashi hide secretly in the closet. The husband later gets drunk during the daytime and gets into a fight with some street thugs who beat him to death. His older son Hideshi encounters them and kills one of the thugs by stomping on his skull. 30 years later in Kyoto a hired killer shoots three men protecting Iwaida in a lift. The aging Iwaida, now head of the Mutsumi Group, recognizes him by a scar on his left cheek before he is shot dead by the killer. A nurse witnesses the killing but the killer lets her live. Two men later question Mr. Yoshikawa, a witness who saw the nurse on the roof at the time the murder of Iwaida was committed, but they gain no in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EM Embalming
is a 1999 Japanese horror film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Reiko Takashima. Plot Cast * Reiko Takashima as Miyako Murakami * Yutaka Matsushige as Detective Hiraoka * Seijun Suzuki as Kurume * Toshio Shiba as Dr. Fuji * Kojiro Hongo as Jion * Hitomi Miwa as Rika Shinohara * Masatoshi Matsuo as Yoshiki Shingo Reception Todd Brown of Twitch Film commented that Shinji Aoyama is creating a subtle parody of the Japanese horror film industry. Stina Chyn of Film Threat noted that ''EM Embalming'' is one of the few Japanese horror films that contains actual non-creepy segments. Andy McKeague of Monsters and Critics felt that the film is genuinely unsettling and morbidly fascinating at the same time. Mike Bracken of IGN criticized the film, saying that ''EM Embalmings greatest failure is that it often tries to be too many things at once and the film itself is almost as schizophrenic as its antagonist. However, he felt that several sequences of the embalming process are gruesome a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrath Of The Yakuza
Anger, also known as wrath ( ; ) or rage (emotion), rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong, uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt, or threat. A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of epinephrine, adrenaline and norepinephrine, noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion that triggers part of the fight-or-flight response, fight or flight response. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behavior, behaviorally, cognition, cognitively, and physiology, physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force. Anger can have many physical and mental consequences. The external expression of anger can be found in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and at times public acts of aggression. Facial expressions can range from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
